The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
| OVER the grave of base ball player in a
| Western town are simply his name and the
| words: He Made Clean Home-run.
| Mr.. LABoUcHERE says Prince Ferdinand of
| Saxe-Cobarg is poor. insignificant, weak crea.
ture, about fit to govern country as a sickly
black beetle
JOAQUIN MILLER, who is building himself a
house in sight of the Golden Gate, says he means
to devote the rest Of his life to writing the Life
of Christ in verse.
THE oldest General of the United States Army
is William Selby Harvey. He was born near
Nashville, Tenn, in 1900 and entered the army
in 1878 He was breveted maior-generaI on
March Is. 1865
THE hot waves bore comfort to Smith Ter
hume, young man in the employ of the Wind
sor, n S., Furniture Company, who has re-
ceived information that ne is the heir to a prop
erty in Boston known as T Wharf. valued at
81, 800 000
McGAKIaLE. the fugitive Chicago boodler,
was very vain man in his days of prosperity.
He kept q scrapbo and pasted therein all
newspaper notices concerning himself and his
doings. A book made mp of recent items con-
corning him would be more sensational than
compllme tary.
KING MILAN of Servia is described in the Lon
don Times in the prime of life, stalwart,
handsome, dark in complexion, energetic in ex-
preston, animated in manner with large,
sparkling eyes fond of Partisan jokes, a me-
chancal smoker of cigarettes and a speaker of
excellent French
THE Mary Stuart tercentsnary exhibition has
revived controversy to that ill-fated queens
beauty. In most of the portraits shown she is
decidedly plain-looking The color of her hair
is in dispute, too. The common idea is that it
dark brown. But the look of it in Queen
Victorias possession is very light. Perhaps she
dyed it.
JAMES RIcALToN the adventurous school
teacher of Maplewood. N. J.. who spends his
summer vacations in travel, is at present in
Algeria. Last summer he travelled in Russia
and he has been all over Europe and South
America, and has visited iceland, all in the
two months vacations between June and Sep
TENDER.
PATTI was commanded to do little singing
at Buckingham Palace to help out the jubilee
But royalty refused to pay Patti prices and the
diva allowed that Her Majesty's commands
might be laid on somebody else. She wouldn't
sing. not a note, for less than her price. She
didn't get her price, and the jubilee had to get
on without Patti
Boston Herald The other day lovely young
woman Of decidedly Puritanic associations re-
ceived visit from italian professor, who
came to pay his respects before departing for
Europe. As she rose to greet him ne grasped
her hand and exclaimed in angushed accents:
"Oh! madame, es it not not as hell damn2 Els
vat not what you say, madame, in Amerique2'
A YEAR ago County Commissioner Van Pet,
of Chicago, who is now being tried for bribery,
was at the head of a delegation of business men
who called the President to ask him to ap-
point McGarigle, now fugitive, to the marshal
ship of the Northern district of Illinois. Mr..
Cleveland. with whom first impressions 60
great wav, did not like tie looks of either Van
Pelt or McGariele and appointed another man.
GEN. JOHN BIDwELL, who recently gave
eight acres of his great ranch at Chico Cal, as
a site for the new normal school of Northern
California, went to that State long before the
discovery Of gold. He bought his ranch of 3d.
900 acres for So, 900, and it worth So 000.-
900. and yields an income of 81, 900. ooO Gener-
al Bidwell used to be a great wine producer.
but his second wife has induced him to root out
all his wine grapes and replace them with raisin
grapes.
SUSANNA MADEIRA SALTER, Mayor of Argonia
Kan, is having very successful administration.
When she was elected TO her present Office her
enemies predicted that she would make failure
of her effort to the municipal affairs OF
Areonia. Up to the present time she has made
great blunders. She is. however. tired of the
burdens of Office and says that when her present
term expires she will retire 60 private life and
leave the government OF Arsonia to the care OF
the sterner sex.
AMONG the New Workers at Saratoga who are
creating something of a sensation Mr. and
Mrs. William Laytin. Mr.. Laytin is the owner
of a fleet of East river ferry boats. and a very
rich On his arrival at the Grand Union
Hotel, Saratoga. he tipped the head waiter with
q $50 BILL according to rumor. and is. therefore.
well served at his meals Mrs. Laytin has two
hundred costumes with her Seventy five of
these are for outdoor wear, and has hats, para
soils and fans to match.
Most people suppose that the cente nnial of
the 'stars and stripes" occurs during the pres
ent month. But according to the historical
editor of the Detroit Free Press this is not so.
He SAYS that the flag of thirteen stripes and
thirteen stars was adopted by the Continental
Congress on the 14tn of June. 1777 Very soon
after that the new flag was unfurled for the
first time by Paul Jones the ship Ranger"
This flag cut much bigger caper the high
seas under the struggling colonial government
than it does now when we have sixty million
people and boast ourselves the greatest nation
on the globe
THE betrotha1 is announced of the second
daughter of the Count and Countess of Paris.
Princess Helen, to young Dom Pedro. of Bra
zil. This Prince. only twenty-one years of age,
is the eldest son of Prince August of SAKE Gotha
Admiral and Commander-inchief Of tho Brazil
ian Army. He is, through his deceased mother,
Princess Leopoldine grandson of the relgnlng
Emperor. AS for the Princess Helen, who has
just attained her seventeenth year, she is an
compiisned lady, and London society which has
had opportunity of seeing little of her during
the last season, is sorry that some plans enter
tanned in high quarters could not be realized on
account of religion In going to Brazil she will
find there a family circle. Her future fatherin-
law Is her uncle
THE curious substance known as ozone. the
nature OF which was long a mystery, and
about which many conflicting hypothesis
have been devised, is now. says the Lancet, be-
coming welknown to Ozone is a denser
form of oxygen. Its specific gravity is "a, that |
of common oxygen being 16 and that of dydro-
gen /. 1t is highly probable that its molecules
contain three similar oxygen atoms. In the con- |
state it is powerful irritant poison,
and it is very unstable. decomposng with ex-
posion and with evolution of heat and exertine |
a most powerful action oxdzable materials.
For some time past it has been known that it
liouefies under the influence of combined cold |
and pressure. The liquid is indigo blue, and its
vapor in a tolerably concentrated state has a |